Hey, superrobotwar, can you give us the link to the “ogin_pv.flv” file you showed in the images?
It’s the rip from the premium members club video. The youtube link you posted has not the same quality (it’s only 13 mb, while in your image the file size is 33 mb)

Oh my God! EPICNESS! See? Despite them changing what a lot of the characters look like, the anime overall would be awesome! And at least Kyosuke, Excellen and Kusuha pretty much look the same. Maybe Rai too.

The characters still look weird and Kyosuke STILL looks almost nothing like himself.

But having said that, I have to admit that the mecha animation looks fantastic. Besides claims from others that it was bad, the thing that put me off from watching DW were the horribly amateurish 3D animations and the attempt to mix them with traditional animation. It honestly looked like a really bad late 90’s cartoon… -_-

Anyway, while this certainly isn’t flawless, it already looks a lot better and the flaws seem a lot less detrimental to the experience. So I might actually end up watching this.